The Rumor Buster

Minimates Wave 33 Revealed

Action Figure Insider has pictures of the upcoming Wave 33 Marvel Minimates. Rachel Grey as both Marvel Girl and her Excalibur costume Phoenix comes with a Sentinel, brother and “sister” Thor and Loki, and mommy-to-be Menace comes with former villain Anti-Venom. So much for most of our predictions! Head over to the board for more discussion!

Marvel Universe Secret Wars Wave 3 Pictures

Marvelousnews has promotional pictures of the Marvel Universe Secret Wars Wave 3 figures. Enchantress, Thor, Hawkeye, Piledriver, Mr. Fantastic and Ultron in all their glory. I know the production shots tend to be a bit of a let down after seeing the promotional pictures, but hopefully the final figures will look almost as good as these do!

Super Hero Squad Show Season 2 Information

Newsarama has a brief interview and discussion of upcoming Super Hero Squad Show episodes and most importantly, the possibility of a second season. There’s good, and there’s bad in the interview (it’s hard to “apparently” get “remarkably positive results”, and I’ll pretend that the question about whether or not the show has begun airing is an attempt to put the interview in the interviewee’s hands, but “So the show has aired already… what are the reactions?” would have worked just as well), but two points of interest:

Point 1:

“Nrama: So how many episodes for the first season?

Lane: 26. We are already in pre-production on season two. I actually wanted to get on season two faster, but we’re working on scripts right now.”

and 2 is information about upcoming episodes (ignore the episode numbers, they have To Err Is Superhuman! as episode 4):

102 – “This Silver, This Surfer!” Written by Mark Hoffmeier
Silver Surfer can’t get a hang of earth customs, and drives his Squad buddies to frustration. So the Surfer sadly heads out on his own. Dr. Doom seizes the opportunity to capture him, realizing he can suck out the Surfer’s power to combine fractals and make an Infinity dagger. Yet the Silver Surfer enjoys torturing his own captors. Fortunately, the Thing rallies the Squad to save their lost friend in an all-out assault on Villainville.?

Guest Heroes – The Thing with Ms. Marvel

Villains – MODOK & Abomination

??103 – “Hulk Talk Smack!” Written by Eugene Son

During a chaotic battle with Klaw & Screaming Mimi, a fractal’s cosmic power turns the Hulk into the Gray Hulk. While Falcon and the Wasp babysit this unlikable, brainy Hulk, the Squad chase down the Lethal Legion in a battle to save Super Hero City.

Guest Heroes – The Wasp?

Villains – Klaw, Toad, Melter, Screaming Mimi with Abomination & MODOK? ?

So there you go, more information about Hulk Talk Smack and to This Silver, This Surfer, and best of all, news that season 2 is already in pre-production! As always, jump over to the Super Hero Squad Show message board to discuss.

The Next Marvel Minimates?

Diamond Select Toys is slowly releasing clues about the upcoming Minimatse figures via twitter… clues so far include

“Marvel Minimates Series 33 Clue #1 – First two-pack contains bro & sis”

“Marvel Minimates Series 33 Clue #2 – Second two-pack contains mommy-to-be and villain-that-was. Next clue at 4PM!”

Marvel Minimates Series 33 Clue #3 – Last two-pack contains fiery female (with classic cut variant) and mechanical monster. Pics on Monday!”

So who’s coming? Aurora and Northstar? Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch? Colossus and Magik? Is number 2 code for Tigra? And fiery female? Phoenix (Rachel or Jean)? Nova? Firestar? Ms. Marvel as Binary? Monday can’t come soon enough! Speculation and discussion, as always, is welcome on the message board.

Gigantic Battles Pictures

Comicfigs.net has set up a gallery of some Gigantic Battles pictures featuring Goliath, the Skrull, Iron Man and Bucky as Captain America. Head on over to check out some of Wal-Mart’s exclusive new Marvel Universe figures! As always, you can head over to the board to discuss

Glow in the Dark Tiny Terrors

Mezco has a limited run of glow in the dark Tiny Terrors up for sale. Freddy Krueger, Jason Voorhees, and Leatherface can now haunt your shelves at night. Teamed up with the Brave and the Bold Action League Gentleman Ghost it seems like Hasbro had better jump on the glow in the dark figure market!

Super Hero Squad Show Scheduling Notes

Marvel.com has the current Super Hero Squad Show schedule information:

9/14/09 Sneak Premiere (Episodes 1 & 2) – 7PM

9/16/09 Sneak Premiere (Episodes 1 & 2) – 7AM

9/18/09 Sneak Premiere (Episodes 1 & 2) – 3PM

9/19/09 Premiere (Episodes 1 & 2) – 8:30AM

9/26/09 – (Episode 3) – 8:30AM

10/3/09 – (Episode 4) – 8:30AM

10/10/09 – (Episode 5) – 8:30AM

10/17/09 – (Episode 6) – 8:30AM

More importantly, from October 19th on, the show will air daily Monday through Saturday at 8:30. And of course, the Super Hero Squad site has been updated with a feature allowing you to make and save your own comic strip or book! Head over to the board to discuss the show.